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Three killed, nine injured by Cyclone Gonu in Iran (1st Lead)
Jun 7, 2007, 11:03 GMT
Tehran - Three people were killed and nine injured in southern Iran by Cyclone Gonu, state television network IRIB reported Thursday.
There was no immediate official confirmation of the IRIB report.
Local officials in the provinces of Hormuzgan and Sistan-Beluchistan as well as the interior ministry said earlier Thursday that the cyclone has so far caused no casualties.
The IRIB report said that two people were killed in Jask and one in Bandar-Abbas in the Hormuzgan province. The IRIB website said that the two killed in Jask were relief workers whose lorry fell into the Tabarkan river.
A health department spokesman in Hormuzgan had earlier said a man died in Bandar Abbas but he was killed in a motorbike accident and not by the cyclone.
According to news agency reports Thursday, no major damage was caused by Cyclone Gonu in Iran, but there was still a state of emergency in at least two provinces in the south and south-west of the country,
Residents of the ports Jask and Chabahar in the provinces of Hormuzgan and Sistan-Beluchistan respectively were ordered to leave and seek temporary shelter in safer areas for the next 24 hours at least.
The governor of Sistan-Beluchistan said that so far no major damage had been witnessed in the province, but all local officials were still on alert as the storm could still hit the province during Thursday.
Also officials in Hormuzgan said that despite strong winds on Wednesday night measuring 200 kilometres per hour, there have been no casualties in the Persian Gulf province.
Damage in both provinces was reportedly limited to toppled trees and temporary difficulties with the electricity supply.
The interior ministry, however, warned residents in the two provinces to stay away from coastal areas and avoid sea transport as wave heights in the Persian Gulf could reach more than five metres.
The country's civil aviation organization has cancelled flights to the airports which might be affected by Cyclone Gonu.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-AgenturCOMMENT
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You're an idiot, what have the people that will be affected ever done to you?
Thozzmania
Wow... what an insensitive and uneducated thing to say. They're people too, and they're not all bad. Show some respect for your fellow man.
yeppers..no doubt this is the work of allah to punish these morons for being useless human beings and scum muslims.
ALLAH AKBAR!!!
@Thozzmania
Disgusting ! Shows how cheap ur thinking is. It also shows how much you value human lives.
For you, maybe only Americans and it's allies are human, the rest of the human civilization is simply a plague that needs to be wiped off the earth.
I wonder if u thought the same way abt 'Katrina'
No wonder, people of ur kind are hated the world over.typical cheney-thinking.
i really wish some day u get to sit in a 'category 5 'roller-coaster'' ride.
and i pray to god to help those in trouble due to the cyclone.
@Stanley
i could say that for the victims of katrina too. but i'm not soo degraded as u.
people like u and thozzmania should be throw into such cyclones to understand their effects, and the 'wrath of god'.
the world would be a much better place without such 'scumbags'
and yes God is Great.
The ppl from iran are humans aswell. why u being so negative ? have they ever done anything personally to you? no dont think so
How about this? I hope no one except Ahmadinejad and the scumbag mullahs/ ayatollahs and their nuclear weapons program scientists and the revolutionary guard that oppress the Iranians get carried away to never never land in the storm. I hope they get dumped in the Arabian gulf.
How about this? I hope no one except bush and cheney and the scumbag neo-cons and their nuclear weapons program scientists and the pentagon and cia ( and all those super-secret spy agencies of US) that oppress the human race get carried away to never never land in the storm. I hope they get dumped in the atlantic ocean !
@Ali
' I hope no one except bush and cheney ....'
You are free to hope for whatever you want. I hope that Iran and the USA do not get into a cataclysmic confrontation provoked by your madmen mullahs and your evil midget dictator to bring about the return of the 'hidden imam'. I suspect that if Cyclone Gonu doesn't do it's work then we will be facing just that.
@Kafir
'I hope that Iran and the USA do not get into a cataclysmic confrontation ..'
i agree with u till only so much.
but regarding who is provoking the confrontation, u better get ur facts rights.
it's the US who is threatening Iran.
It's the US who is thinking of nuking iran (bomb bomb bomb iran ?? ).
It's bush who is the dictator here. he's dictating 'his' will and terms on the sheepish US citizens and the dumb congress (who can't even impeach him).
he's opposing the will of abt 60% of his electorate. speak of dictatorship (...or democracy ???) !
But that's not the topic of discussion in this forum.
so i hope u u get ur facts right before making any false comments
and for all those out there who believe these 'media-made lies' that the mullahs wish to increase world chaos to bring about the return of the 'hidden imam'....well, His return is decided by Allah and not by any human(s).
secondly, when He returns, he's expected to wipe off injustice and oppression from the earth's face, so if what u say is true, then won't those creating chaos be the first to be brought to justice. it'll be sucidal for them (later)to forment chaos (now) !!
u are so foolish not to understand this simple logic.
'it's the US who is threatening Iran.'
We don't chant death to Iran here...
'It's the US who is thinking of nuking iran (bomb bomb bomb iran ?? ).'
Iran has repeatedly killed our people and threatened our allies. Iran simply can not be get an atomic bomb.
'It's bush who is the dictator here. '
Have you seen what they do to Iranian women?
'he's dictating 'his' will and terms on the sheepish US citizens and the dumb congress (who can't even impeach him).'
Heh, I voted for him...
After the 'revolution' in 1979 my family helped a family of Iranian Christians who had worked for Grumman get out of the nightmare that Iran became. It still chokes me up when I think of the women going into an American supermarket and bursting into tears at the abundance this country has and the poverty that Iran had. Who is 'stupid' and 'sheepish'? Iranians can't impeach their leaders, they can't elect them either. they are chosen by the mullahs and ayatollahs.
'so i hope u u get ur facts right before making any false comments'
Some facts then: Since 1979, Iranians or Iranian funded and controlled terrorist groups have; invaded the US embassy and held our diplomatic staff for 444 days, took American journalists and a British minister hostage in Lebanon, killing William Buckley, bombed the US embassy in Lebanon killing 17 Americans, bombed the US barracks Beirut which killed 241 Americans on a peacekeeping mission, bombed the Khobar Towers killing 19 Americans, hijacked an aircraft and killed Robert Stethem and dumped his body on the tarmac, bombed a Jewish center in Argentina, killing 85, their proxy Hezbollah has started several conflicts with Israel, including the one last summer which left hundreds dead. They still have a bounty on the head of Salmon Rushdie for writing a book that they didn’t like, they have provided the Shiite death squads in Iraq with training and material as well as the Sunni death squads that go after the Shiites with the objective of creating as much bloodshed in Iraq as passable. They have also been supplying shaped charges and shoulder launched anti-aircraft missiles to kill coalition troops. They Chant 'death to America' on a daily basis in their schools and Mosques, they continually threaten to wipe Israel off the map, they have mined the Strait of Hormuz, they publicly lynch girls for being 'disobedient', they publicly lynch boys for being homosexual, they publicly lash women for the crime of being raped, they stone women to death for infidelity, they censor their news, They beat a Canadian journalist to death because she wrote unflattering stories, they murder political dissidents, invented the suicide bomber, kidnapped British sailors and holding them hostage, kidnapping american aid workers and holding them hostage...ect, ect....
' His return is decided by Allah and not by any human(s).'
There is no such thing as a hidden imam.
'u are so foolish not to understand this simple logic.'
About your fairy tales? Logic? Please...
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ThozzmaniaJun 7th, 2007 - 11:47:07
I couldn't care less what happens to Iran. I hope it becomes a catagory 5.
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